Denver’s Emerson School is among the 34 new projects awarded more than $6 million from the State Historical Fund. (blog.preservation.org)

On Tuesday, Colorado’s 23-year-old State Historical Fund highlighted a farm in Brighton, a high school in Benton County, a cemetery in Boulder and Denver’s long-dormant Emerson School among the 34 grants for historic preservation awarded across the state for fiscal year 2013.

The diversity and breadth of the grants is good news for dozens of aging architectural treasures and examples of Colorado’s pioneer past, as well as some modest community icons and historic sites.

“One of the finest examples of Modern Movement architecture in Colorado Springs, the 1957 Maytag Aircraft Building — founded by Lewis B. Maytag, Jr., heir to the fortune of Maytag Appliance magnate Lewis B. Maytag, Sr. — will undergo roof rehabilitation and exterior repair with funds from SHF,” History Colorado said in a news release.